A sense of urgency

We can now add “re-accommodate” to the Corporate Speak vocabulary list. I am sure that it is a familiar term if you work in the airline industry, but it is new to me.

Corporate Speak Vocabulary

re-accommodate

sense of urgency

transparent, transparency

take offline

the ask

the how

opportunities, identify opportunities

gaps

add value, value-add

leadership, Leadership

deliverable

reach out

leverage

core competency

buy-in

engagement

alignment

passionate

awesome

all-hands

summit

have that conversation, have the conversation

around

action item

actionable

 

“We’re like salmon, only we die in slow motion.”

“…from the age of thirty or forty on, after we’ve spawned, we’re living on time that evolution regards as pointless. … ‘if you just kept aging at the rate you age between twenty and thirty, you’d live to be a thousand. At thirty, everything starts to change.’ From that point, our risk of mortality doubles every seven years.”

Tad Friend, “The God Pill.” The New Yorker, 4/3/17.

seduction to the world of construction

and his massive genitals
refuse to cooperate
no amount of therapy
can hope to save his marriage


Image: public domain, “Hotel room of the Renaissance Hotel in Columbus, Ohio.”
Source: http://marysrosaries.com/, Category: What Man has done with God’s Gifts.

“I’m here to swallow gum and to take names.”

Melissa McCarthy’s parody of White House (“so-called”) press secretary Sean “Spicey” Spicer is funny (edited to add: but not that funny–really, more amusing). But her Spicer is smarter than the real Spicer. I don’t believe that Sean Spicer knows when or why women ovulate or that he has ever even used that word.

My favorite part is the gum.

“Coat-hanger cutouts were everywhere.”

“sign taxonomy” from Saturday’s march by Jia Tolentino in The New Yorker. THE RADICAL POSSIBILITY OF THE WOMEN’S MARCH.”

So I wandered the mall, taking a running sign taxonomy. There were the signs that announced the carrier’s identity: “Fornicating Homosexual Abortionist,” “Now You’ve Gone and Pissed Off Grandma,” “Proud Louisiana Liberal—Send Help!” (Plenty of people carried torches for others: white and Asian women holding Black Lives Matter signs, men with signs about reproductive rights.) Others roasted Donald Trump lightheartedly: “The Devil Wears Bronzer,” “Urine For a Long Four Years.” Some were as frank as possible: “I’m Too Worried to Be Funny,” “I Can’t Believe I Left the Soviet Union for This Shit.” There were pleas for police accountability and grace toward immigrants; innumerable signs protested Trump’s Cabinet, his unreleased tax returns, his “Access Hollywood” gloating descriptions of sexual assault. Coat-hanger cutouts were everywhere.

But Tolentino’s main point was about white women’s politics (emphasis mine):

Beneath the thrill of the broad-minded demonstration, there was a nagging thought that I couldn’t shake, and that some protesters made a point of noting:

if a majority of white women had not voted for Trump in November, he would not currently be President

—and millions of people would not be protesting. There’s a corollary to this that also tugged at me:

if Trump weren’t President—if we had, on Friday, inaugurated President Hillary Clinton—how many of the white women who protested on Saturday would feel as if there weren’t much about America that needed protesting at all?

California vs. Trump

“Some people say they’re gonna turn off the satellites that are monitoring the climate,” [California governor Jerry Brown] said, adding that back in the 1970s he had been one of the first politicians to propose low-Earth satellites. “They called me Governor Moonbeam because of that,” he said. “If Trump turns off the satellites, California will launch its own damn satellite.”

The California Sunday Magazine has started a series called “California vs. Trump.” Part 1 was posted on 1/17. By Andy Kroll and with pics by Erin Brethauer.

“The Great Exception: California vs. Trump. Part One.”